What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.